Came back from a two-day meeting with my juniors from Warangal. Standard feeling – a sense of homecoming. Would be crazy if I felt otherwise. REC Warangal (the big marble letters in the entrance saying N-I-T doesn’t change a thing, it’s still REC Warangal for me ) is just the same. A lot of faces are missing, of course, and I know for sure that when I am there the next time, a lot more faces will be missing. Good that I went and met them.
Highpoints:
1) The smell of the trees. It rained on Saturday afternoon, and I was sleeping in Kaancha’s room with the windows open. Could hear the drizzle, and feel some of the drops beeing blown inside the room and on my skin. I believe the word I am looking for is “oooooooh”.
2) I checked, and verified. 108 days to go,
3) Getting a used AMD 500 Mhz computer (minus monitor and UPS ) for 2000 bucks. \:D/ Also the vcd of Yodha. Yippee!!! :-)
4) ettukali. Major surprise, da. Wish you had told me earlier, I could have gotten the Blue Oyster Cult mp3s for you.
Among other things, one small thing I discovered I had missed was the ambient noise of the hostel – more specifically, the tenth block. At any given point of time, you can hear the crackle of static from the TV room, the slam of the cricket ball hitting the door, and people shouting “Out!!!” or “Go go go!!” or whatever… Random doors being banged. Music from some room, often three different songs playng from the same wing. Running water. The sound of bikes revved from afar. Funny, nowadays I can’s sleep without a small sound waking me up, and to think I actually slept through all my final year. There’s also a funny smell in almost all the rooms. I think now I understand why my parents got so mindnumbingly psyched when they saw my room in the Final year.
Bah! Civilisation has robbed me of my adventurousness – or at least a part of it.
Didn’t go around the blocks much. It’s the end of March, and it’s hot.
Scary revelation: I had to consciously think which block the Third Block was. It hasn’t even been a year.
Happened to come across Daskar, our English prof from the first year. Seems it’s his last year as editor of the College Magazine ( no, Institute Magazine, he corrected) and he’s planning to bring out a cd along with it. True to form, he asked me if I could write something about life after RECW…..you know, standard boy-meets-the-Big-World types. Thought I would copy-paste some stuff from my LJ, but don’t want to get lynched. :-) Will have to remember to send him a polite mail sometime.
Among the lowpoints was the news that all club activities were suspended until September. And no Branch events were being allowed too, the CSE people aren’t being allowed a Valedictory function. Everytime I feel that our Hallowed Authorities can’t get any worse than this, there’s nothing dumber they can do than this, they go and do something that beats all previous achievements hollow. Big, dumb, stupid, narrow-minded nincompoops!!!
I will miss you, guys and gals.
What’s an English prof. doing in RECW?
:-)
teaching English.
actually we have a humanities department, and English is a standard subject in the first year ( i believe other RECs have a humanities course). Among other things, the English deptt is also in charge of some courses for the MBA students.
Yodha… I remember liking that movie a lot as a kid. Which language do have it in? Not that it matters much for a second viewing.
Isn’t Yodha audio a rarity these days? Stupid question to follow.. Refresh my memory please.. Which one is first? Roja or Yodha?
Roja is first. Yodha – the malayalam original – was a close second. I guess ARR was signed up for Yodha much before the release of Roja.
Yodha keeps appearing on the mal movie channles quite often. Saw a few scenes just this weekend.
Have it in Malayalam.
Yodha audio is indeed a rarity, the company that brought it out was Tharangini audio, which went bust, i think the rights are now owned by BMG, and those buggers arent bringing it out anymore.
Even rarer is the Hindi dubbed version called “DharamYoddha”.
And like says, Roja’s first!!And even before Yodha came out, there was a Telugu movie named “Nippurava” which had BGM by Rahman!!! I didn’t know that!!!
Thanks for the enlightenment! I know Nippuravva, saw parts of it, one of those big budget flop movies.
Now repeat after me..”Padakaali chandi chankari porkkali..”
Once upon a time I dreamt of actually learning the song, and then singing BOTH the voices onstage.
Some things are best left undiscussed. ;-)
raindrops keep fallin
>Could hear the drizzle, and feel some of the drops beeing blown inside the room and on my skin. I believe the word I am looking for is “oooooooh”.
The rhythm of the raindrops has the power to hold one captive. The rapturous feeling of the drops on the skin cannot be put in words. Though oooooh gave me the picture.
Re: raindrops keep fallin
That reminds me. I need to go grab the “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid” OST from. :-P
A lot of faces are missing, of course, and I know for sure that when I am there the next time, a lot more faces will be missing. Good that I went and met them.
The saddest time is when no one you know (except for some of the old profs and those of your batchmates/juniors who teache there!) are left :-( The place will still have a lot of memories without the corresponding faces….
The PC sounds good, but YODHA IS ON VCD??? MANNNNNNNNNN
nowadays I can’s sleep without a small sound waking me up,
Bah! Civilisation has robbed me of my adventurousness – or at least a part of it.
true….does moving up in life actually spoil us?
The saddest time is when no one you know (except for some of the old profs and those of your batchmates/juniors who teache there!) are left
True, very true…..
“Moving up in life”, as u put it, has both it’s advantages and disadvantages. I know for sure now, that I can’t lead a “normal” hostel life. I would be too fussy about small things. But it’s nice to think about leading an irresponsible, carefree life once in a while.
*sigh*
Dude I love Blue Oyster Cult.Do you have Mp3’s of them?
“yes sir yes sir, three bags full.”
:-P
four albums. want?
Sure,would love to want it.
am out of town this weekend, meet me anytime the next week. u want me to write the albums in a cd for you?
Yes pls.
Man, that’s a beautiful description of returning back to college!
First, I read it and just absorbed the feeling. Just great.
I don’t know whether you did it consciously or just wrote, but you managed to engage all the senses:
“The smell of the trees”, “Could hear”, “ambient noise of the hostel”, “feel some of the drops beeing blown inside the room and on my skin. “, “It’s the end of March, and it’s hot. “
And you did that very natually, weaving the sensual experience with all the details and anecdotes of being there…Awesome!
Truly pleased to read that…Reminded me of my own going-back-to-college experiences.